73 research outputs found
Charge transfer excitations, pair density waves, and superconductivity in moiré materials
Transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers are a new class of tunable moiré systems attracting interest as quantum simulators of strongly interacting electrons in two dimensions. In particular, recent theory predicts that the correlated insulator observed in WSe₂/WS₂ at half filling is a charge-transfer insulator similar to cuprates and, upon further hole doping, exhibits a transfer of charge from anionlike to cationlike orbitals at different locations in the moiré unit cell. In this work, we demonstrate that in this doped charge-transfer insulator, tightly bound charge-2e excitations can form to lower the total electrostatic repulsion. This composite excitation, which we dub a trimer, consists of a pair of holes bound to a charge-transfer exciton. When the bandwidth of doped holes is small, trimers crystallize into insulating pair density waves at a sequence of commensurate doping levels. When the bandwidth becomes comparable to the pair binding energy, itinerant holes and charge-2e trimers interact resonantly, leading to unconventional superconductivity similar to superfluidity in an ultracold Fermi gas near Feshbach resonance. Our theory is broadly applicable to strongly interacting charge-transfer insulators, such as WSe₂/WS₂ or TMD homobilayers under an applied electric field
A Simple Mechanism for Unconventional Superconductivity in a Repulsive Fermion Model
Motivated by a scarcity of simple and analytically tractable models of
superconductivity from strong repulsive interactions, we introduce a simple
tight-binding lattice model of fermions with repulsive interactions that
exhibits unconventional superconductivity (beyond BCS theory). The model
resembles an idealized conductor-dielectric-conductor trilayer. The Cooper pair
consists of electrons on opposite sides of the dielectric, which mediates the
attraction. In the strong coupling limit, we use degenerate perturbation theory
to show that the model reduces to a superconducting hard-core Bose-Hubbard
model. Above the superconducting critical temperature, an analog of pseudo-gap
physics results where the fermions remain Cooper paired with a large
single-particle energy gap.Comment: 12+12 pages; 3 figures; v5 is a major revision with new additions: a
conductor-dielectric-conductor trilayer interpretation, an elaborated
introduction, figures 1 and 2, and sections 4.3.1 and 5.
Foliated Field Theory and String-Membrane-Net Condensation Picture of Fracton Order
Foliated fracton order is a qualitatively new kind of phase of matter. It is
similar to topological order, but with the fundamental difference that a
layered structure, referred to as a foliation, plays an essential role and
determines the mobility restrictions of the topological excitations. In this
work, we introduce a new kind of field theory to describe these phases: a
foliated field theory. We also introduce a new lattice model and
string-membrane-net condensation picture of these phases, which is analogous to
the string-net condensation picture of topological order.Comment: 22+15 pages, 8 figures; v3 added a summary of our model near the end
of the introductio
Fast Tensor Disentangling Algorithm
Many recent tensor network algorithms apply unitary operators to parts of a
tensor network in order to reduce entanglement. However, many of the previously
used iterative algorithms to minimize entanglement can be slow. We introduce an
approximate, fast, and simple algorithm to optimize disentangling unitary
tensors. Our algorithm is asymptotically faster than previous iterative
algorithms and often results in a residual entanglement entropy that is within
10 to 40% of the minimum. For certain input tensors, our algorithm returns an
optimal solution. When disentangling order-4 tensors with equal bond
dimensions, our algorithm achieves an entanglement spectrum where nearly half
of the singular values are zero. We further validate our algorithm by showing
that it can efficiently disentangle random 1D states of qubits.Comment: 8+4 pages, 3 figures; v3 improves the extended algorithm in Appendix
Foliated fracton order in the checkerboard model
In this work, we show that the checkerboard model exhibits the phenomenon of
foliated fracton order. We introduce a renormalization group transformation for
the model that utilizes toric code bilayers as an entanglement resource, and
show how to extend the model to general three-dimensional manifolds.
Furthermore, we use universal properties distilled from the structure of
fractional excitations and ground-state entanglement to characterize the
foliated fracton phase and find that it is the same as two copies of the X-cube
model. Indeed, we demonstrate that the checkerboard model can be transformed
into two copies of the X-cube model via an adiabatic deformation.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
Universal entanglement signatures of foliated fracton phases
Fracton models exhibit a variety of exotic properties and lie beyond the
conventional framework of gapped topological order. In a previous work, we
generalized the notion of gapped phase to one of foliated fracton phase by
allowing the addition of layers of gapped two-dimensional resources in the
adiabatic evolution between gapped three-dimensional models. Moreover, we
showed that the X-cube model is a fixed point of one such phase. In this paper,
according to this definition, we look for universal properties of such phases
which remain invariant throughout the entire phase. We propose multi-partite
entanglement quantities, generalizing the proposal of topological entanglement
entropy designed for conventional topological phases. We present arguments for
the universality of these quantities and show that they attain non-zero
constant value in non-trivial foliated fracton phases.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figure
Quantum Gauge Networks: A New Kind of Tensor Network
Although tensor networks are powerful tools for simulating low-dimensional
quantum physics, tensor network algorithms are very computationally costly in
higher spatial dimensions. We introduce quantum gauge networks: a different
kind of tensor network ansatz for which the computation cost of simulations
does not explicitly increase for larger spatial dimensions. We take inspiration
from the gauge picture of quantum dynamics, which consists of a local
wavefunction for each patch of space, with neighboring patches related by
unitary connections. A quantum gauge network (QGN) has a similar structure,
except the Hilbert space dimensions of the local wavefunctions and connections
are truncated. We describe how a QGN can be obtained from a generic
wavefunction or matrix product state (MPS). All -point correlation
functions of any wavefunction for many operators can be encoded exactly by
a QGN with bond dimension . In comparison, for just , an
exponentially larger bond dimension of is generically required for an
MPS of qubits. We provide a simple QGN algorithm for approximate simulations of
quantum dynamics in any spatial dimension. The approximate dynamics can achieve
exact energy conservation for time-independent Hamiltonians, and spatial
symmetries can also be maintained exactly. We benchmark the algorithm by
simulating the quantum quench of fermionic Hamiltonians in up to three spatial
dimensions.Comment: 11+9 pages, 6+1 figures. v3 adds Figs 3 and 4 and Eq 7 to extract a
density matrix from the QG
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